Maria Flor Alvarado Reyes

Mariaflor wrote in january 2011:

My main aim is to study and to grow as a person but there are 4 other children in my family who already study. My mother can't afford to pay school for us all. To pay for my studies I work in FairMail to achieve my dream: to study Communication sciences at the university and develop my abilities as a photographer. I want to take more photographs that will be recognized in countries all over the World!

Mariaflor wrote in 2007:

It makes me happy to make photos that reflect the emotions of my Peru.

Hi my name is María Flor Alvarado Reyes and I live in Milagro* with my mother and 3 brothers and sisters. I am in the fourth grade of secondary school. And now I am in FairMail to dedicate myself to photography.

I want to use the money I earn in FairMail to cover my school costs and to buy materials for my house.

In the future I want to be a nurse to cure people and I want to be an important person in life!

* Most children of recycling families in this village help out their parents searching the dump-located in the poorest part of town- for materials to sell. The organization YMCA (www.ymcaperu.org) runs an educational centre near the dump to stimulate children, teenagers and their parents to go to school and develop themselves. This centre is one of the places where Fairmail finds teenagers – Maria Flor is one of them- to participate in Fairmail, selecting them on motivation, punctuality and talent for photography.